John Wayne Quotes

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

The thing that I enjoy about being an actor and the thing that I enjoy about the arts in general is the ability to make the audience feel an emotion that they weren't intending to feel before they went in.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

All art is about appealing to emotion.

There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

I feel that the arts have an impact in a way that just makes the world more beautiful.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

We know how to convey exactly what we want to convey. We know how it makes us feel and we know exactly how to show our fans how to feel the same way.

All my songs encapsulate a particular emotion.

Dance should touch people.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

I think that there is not really a difference between a 'Peanuts' and a beautiful Renaissance painting. There is something very romantic in the 'Peanuts' - it's at the same level of a novel or a Jane Austen story or a beautiful embroidered rose fabric. It is a piece of romanticism.

Any piece of art has the potential to emotionally touch you and nudge you.

I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.